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Summary

  • CORS: references/details.md set allow_origins=["*"] with allow_credentials=True. In that combination Starlette echoes any request Origin (cors.py lines 37 and 163-164). The origins now come from a new Settings.CORS_ORIGINS: list[str] = [] setting, with a comment explaining why. This is the same pattern 🛡️ Sentinel: [Security Enhancement] Add security middleware to API template #154 fixed in api-design-principles/assets/rest-api-template.py.
  • Runnable template: define settings in api/dependencies.py; add the missing AsyncSession/Optional/select imports to repositories/user_repository.py; replace the undefined database.connect()/disconnect() with await engine.dispose() on shutdown. User create and update now pass dicts to the repository, so hashed_password is stored and password changes take effect. Before, create raised a UserCreate ValidationError and update silently dropped the hash. Also .dict() → .model_dump(), since the template already uses Pydantic v2 (pydantic_settings).
  • Tests and auth libraries: SKILL.md's conftest now uses ASGITransport (httpx 0.28.0 removed AsyncClient(app=)) and @pytest_asyncio.fixture, and drops the event_loop override (pytest-asyncio 1.0.0 removed that fixture). python-jose and passlib become PyJWT and pwdlib, as in the FastAPI OAuth2/JWT tutorial. get_current_user now casts sub with int(sub), because PyJWT (since 2.10.0) requires sub to be a string.

Scope

  • Plugin authoring (new or modified plugins/<name>/...)
  • Adapter framework (tools/adapters/)
  • Quality tooling (validators, gardener, plugin-eval)
  • Per-harness setup or docs (docs/harnesses.md)
  • AGENTS.md / ARCHITECTURE.md / docs/
  • CI / build / release
  • Other

Affected harnesses

  • Claude Code
  • OpenAI Codex CLI
  • Cursor
  • OpenCode
  • Antigravity CLI
  • Pi
  • Pure tooling / framework (no harness behavior change)

(Content-only change. Every harness receives the same skill text.)

Test plan

  • make validate STRICT=1: passes
  • make garden: 0 errors, 8 warnings, the same output as main
  • make test: 735 passed
  • make smoke-test: 9 passed, 5 skipped (agy and pi are not installed here), 3 failed. The same 3 fail on unmodified main on my machine, because of local CLI setup: my opencode build has no agent list subcommand, and codex doctor fails because Codex is not logged in.
  • make generate-all: no tracked registry changes
  • Ran ruff + ty in plugins/plugin-eval/: no Python files changed
  • Ran the template itself. I saved each # path.py snippet as a file, added minimal models/user.py, schemas/user.py, a router and a login endpoint, and ran the skill's tests/test_users.py plus a round-trip test: create a user → log in → GET /me → PATCH the password → the old password gets 401 and the new one gets 200, and CORS does not echo https://evil.example but does echo the configured origin. Versions: fastapi 0.143.1, starlette 1.8.0, httpx 0.28.1, pytest-asyncio 1.4.0, pydantic 2.14.1, SQLAlchemy 2.1.4, PyJWT 2.15.1, pwdlib 0.3.1. Result: 3 passed. I also ran with TestClient(app): pass, which runs lifespan, so startup and the new engine.dispose() shutdown execute (ASGITransport does not send lifespan events). It passes. With PyJWT 2.15.1, decoding a token whose sub is an int raises InvalidSubjectError: Subject must be a string. The unmodified template fails at import time with NameError. The issue lists each later failure.

Cross-harness portability notes

  • SKILL.md stays small (about 3.8 KB, under the Codex 8 KB cap). Most of the changes are in references/details.md.
  • No tool names or frontmatter changed.

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Closes #764

Prepared with Claude Code; I reviewed and tested the change.

…s runnable

- Read CORS origins from settings instead of ["*"] with credentials;
  Starlette echoes any Origin in that combination.
- Define settings in api/dependencies.py, add the imports missing from
  repositories/user_repository.py, and replace the undefined
  database.connect()/disconnect() with engine.dispose().
- Pass dicts to the repository so user creation keeps hashed_password
  and password changes are stored.
- Test harness: ASGITransport (httpx 0.28 removed AsyncClient(app=)),
  pytest_asyncio.fixture, and no event_loop override.
- Use PyJWT and pwdlib, as the FastAPI security docs do.
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  • Documentation
    • Updated FastAPI examples with runtime and development dependency guidance and current async testing patterns.
    • Revised database examples to use lazy connections, dispose of resources at shutdown, and configure CORS origins.
    • Expanded repository examples to accept dictionaries as well as schemas, and clarified duplicate-email handling and password protection.
    • Refreshed authentication examples with updated JWT and password-hashing practices, including safer handling of invalid tokens.

The FastAPI examples update application settings and database lifecycle handling, repository and user-write patterns, password hashing and token validation, and async test fixtures.

Changes: FastAPI Template Corrections

Layer / File(s) Summary
Application settings and lifecycle
plugins/api-scaffolding/skills/fastapi-templates/references/details.md
Settings use SettingsConfigDict, add configurable CORS origins, and use SQLAlchemy’s DeclarativeBase. The application uses the configured origins and disposes the engine at shutdown.
Repository inputs and user writes
plugins/api-scaffolding/skills/fastapi-templates/references/details.md
Repository methods accept Pydantic schemas or dictionaries. User creation and updates pass dictionaries with password hashes. Duplicate emails raise a dedicated exception, which the endpoint maps to a fixed 400 response.
Password hashing and token validation
plugins/api-scaffolding/skills/fastapi-templates/references/details.md
The security example uses pwdlib and PyJWT. It uses timezone-aware token timestamps and validates the token subject before converting it to an integer.
Async test fixtures
plugins/api-scaffolding/skills/fastapi-templates/SKILL.md
The examples list runtime and test dependencies. Async fixtures use pytest_asyncio.fixture, dispose the database engine, and use ASGITransport. The client fixture removes the database dependency override after use.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 90cd8

The examples restrict credentialed CORS to configured origins, correct the application lifecycle and password-write paths, and clean up test resources and overrides. The consuming application must provide the imported User model with the expected hashed_password mapping; no concrete merge-blocking defect is established in the reviewed changes.

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Linked Issues check Passed Issue #764 requires fixes in the FastAPI template. The diff limits credentialed CORS to settings.CORS_ORIGINS. It fixes undefined settings, repository imports, and engine shutdown. It passes diction…
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Closing: I opened this too early. CONTRIBUTING asks to wait for a maintainer reply on the issue first, so I'll wait for feedback on #764 before proposing changes.

… APIs

- The create-user 400 returned str(e). Pydantic's ValidationError is a
  ValueError whose message includes input values, so the handler could
  send part of the password hash to the client. The service now raises
  EmailAlreadyRegisteredError and the endpoint returns a fixed message;
  other errors become a generic 500.
- datetime.utcnow() -> datetime.now(timezone.utc).
- Pydantic v1 `class Config` -> model_config = SettingsConfigDict(...).
- sqlalchemy.ext.declarative.declarative_base -> sqlalchemy.orm.DeclarativeBase.
- Add a dependency list, including sqlalchemy[asyncio] (the async engine
  needs greenlet).

Refs wshobson#764
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Thanks for reproducing #764 and for checking the round trip and CORS, @wshobson. I reopened this PR and added one commit (01f4ffb) for the three points. All changes are in plugins/api-scaffolding/skills/fastapi-templates/ (SKILL.md and references/details.md).

1. The 400 handler returned str(e)

  • Pydantic's ValidationError is a subclass of ValueError, and its message includes the input values. The old UserCreate(**user_data) rebuild raised one that carried hashed_password, and except ValueError sent it to the client. fix(api-scaffolding): restrict CORS origins and make fastapi-templates runnable #765 already removed that rebuild. This commit removes the pattern, so other errors can't leak data this way.
  • services/user_service.py now raises a dedicated EmailAlreadyRegisteredError. It carries no user data.
  • api/v1/endpoints/users.py catches only that exception and returns a fixed detail="Email already registered". Any other error is not caught there, so the client gets FastAPI's generic 500. str(e) is no longer in the skill.

2. Deprecated APIs (I searched both files for each pattern. Each one appeared only in the file listed below.)

  • core/security.py: datetime.utcnow() → datetime.now(timezone.utc), in both branches of create_access_token.
  • core/config.py: class Config: env_file = ".env" → model_config = SettingsConfigDict(env_file=".env").
  • core/database.py: from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base / Base = declarative_base() → class Base(DeclarativeBase): pass, from sqlalchemy.orm.
  • I also searched for other Pydantic v1 calls (.dict(), parse_obj, from_orm, orm_mode). The skill has none.

3. Dependency list

SKILL.md has a new "Dependencies" section with a requirements.txt and a requirements-dev.txt block:

  • Runtime: fastapi, uvicorn[standard], pydantic-settings, sqlalchemy[asyncio]>=2.0, asyncpg, PyJWT, pwdlib[argon2], and python-multipart (needed only for a login route that uses OAuth2PasswordRequestForm).
  • Tests: pytest, pytest-asyncio, httpx, aiosqlite.
  • The only version pin is sqlalchemy>=2.0, because DeclarativeBase needs it.

How I tested it

I extracted every snippet into an app/ package. I added small stubs for what the skill doesn't show: a User model, the schemas, and a /auth/login route. Then I ran it with pytest. I used FastAPI 0.143.1, Starlette 1.8.0, SQLAlchemy 2.1.4, Pydantic 2.14.1, pydantic-settings 2.16.0, PyJWT 2.15.1, pwdlib 0.3.1, httpx 0.28.1 and pytest-asyncio 1.4.0.

Check Before this commit After
Round trip: create → login → /me → password change → old password 401, new password 200 pass pass
CORS: an unknown origin is not echoed back. The configured origin is allowed. pass pass
Lifespan: shutdown disposes the engine pass pass
Duplicate email returns exactly {"detail": "Email already registered"} pass pass
A ValidationError that contains a hash, injected into user creation, does not reach the response body fail (400 with ...$aGFzaGhhc2hoYXNo and input_value= in it) pass (500, no hash, no exception text)
pytest -W error::DeprecationWarning fails at import (PydanticDeprecatedSince20). Without -W, 3 deprecation warnings: class-based config, declarative_base, utcnow 6 passed, 0 warnings

I also checked the dependency list and the real server:

  • In a fresh venv with only the packages from the new dependency list, all 6 tests pass with -W error::DeprecationWarning.
  • If I uninstall greenlet, the import fails with SQLAlchemy's "requires that the Python 'greenlet' library is installed" error. This confirms that sqlalchemy[asyncio] is needed.
  • I started the app with uvicorn. /openapi.json returns 200. A CORS preflight from an unknown origin is rejected, and one from the configured origin is allowed. The log shows lifespan startup and shutdown completing.

Repository checks

  • make validate STRICT=1: OK.
  • make garden: 0 errors. It shows the same 8 SKILL_OVER_CODEX_CAP warnings as main, for other skills.
  • make test: 735 passed.
  • make generate-all: no changes to tracked files.
  • make smoke-test: the same 3 failures as on main (the opencode agent list, and codex doctor, which has no credentials on my machine). The other tests pass.

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The UserUpdate schema is required to assess this concern.

update_user removes password and hashes it only when truthy. An empty password would be discarded if UserUpdate.password accepts "". However, the template only imports UserUpdate from app.schemas.user; it does not define the schema or its validation constraints. The empty-password path cannot be established from the available source.

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Thanks for the quick turnaround, @jwcastillo. We ran the template with only the packages in your new dependency list, and everything behaves the way you described, with no deprecation warnings.

CodeRabbit's two notes on tests/conftest.py are right, and we reproduced both. After the tests finish, an aiosqlite thread is still running and the get_db override is still set. Two added lines fix them:

    async with AsyncSessionLocal() as session:
        yield session
    await engine.dispose()
    async with AsyncClient(transport=transport, base_url="http://test") as client:
        yield client
    app.dependency_overrides.clear()

Pytest runs the code after yield even when a test fails, so you don't need a try/finally. Once you push, we'll run CI and merge.

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@coderabbitai Both points were valid. Fixed in 3fb9db0:

  • db_session now awaits engine.dispose() in a finally block.
  • client removes the get_db override in a finally block after the client closes.

I checked it with the extracted example app: a test that runs after a client test used to still see the override, and now it doesn't. The full round trip and CORS tests still pass.

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Thanks, @wshobson. My 3fb9db0 crossed with your comment. I've now pushed 0110a6b, which uses your two lines exactly: await engine.dispose() after the session block and app.dependency_overrides.clear() after the client block, with no try/finally.

I re-ran the extracted template with ResourceWarnings as errors. The round trip, CORS and override checks all pass (8 passed), and a test that runs after a client test no longer sees the override.

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Thanks, @jwcastillo, for the thorough fix and the fast follow-up. The template now runs with only the listed packages, CORS echoes only the configured origins, and the test fixtures clean up after themselves. Merging now, which also closes #764.

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